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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
"may be the Dragon, a common icon in Asia that combines the disparate and frequently beneficent attributes of lesser beings into one of extraordinary capability and power. In the best companies, the whole is truly the sum of several... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
encourage participation? Because the quarterly check-ins were not mandatory, the company found a wide disparity in how often managers and employees followed through on them. Even though snapshots were designed to be quick, over half were... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
offered new students not only social events to help them get acquainted but also a central location where they could obtain information on everything from purchasing computers to buying groceries. Through it all, Hughes proved to be a skillful leader, drawing View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Liberté, égalité, Sororité Groysberg plans to tackle boardroom gender disparity in How Star Women Succeed. "We'll start by asking why do we want to have a diverse board," he says. "Is it about fairness? Is it about better decision-making?... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
global south, amassing more than 2 million users in just five years. Global figures continued to climb, but in the spring of 2020, when schools across the United States were closed due to the pandemic, the organization turned its attention homeward. “We have this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
Among the 31 works in "Second Show," a recent exhibit of Wib Walling's paintings, one in particular seems to reflect the disparate paths that have brought the artist to this juncture in his life. Titled Self-Portrait, the work is a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
organizing the Lean In Community (on Facebook, of course). Some of her advice is useful no matter one's gender, given Sandberg's disparate career stops at Facebook and Google, the Treasury Department, and McKinsey & Company. For example,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
capital given the history of racial disparities in the U.S. To address this growing inequality, the fund aims to invest patient, flexible capital ($25,000 - $50,000) with the goal of scaling BIPOC-led and -owned small businesses. In... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
regulatory authority of the new prudential regulator. Not to do so would simply push financial risk out of the regulated firms to the others. It takes a financial crisis to illustrate the inadequacies of the existing system and provide the motivation for bringing... View Details
- Web
IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
experimentation and rapid evolution of IT products and services Simplified exploration and linking of disparate data and services The ability to scale resources dynamically as needed—giving us “just in time” infrastructure Detailed... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this preference for a mixed objective, proposing a method by which to make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Midwest
panelists (including the Head of Healthcare Policy at Lyft, the former president of the American Medical Association, and the Chief Patient Officer at Pfizer) to discuss solutions for health disparities facing the Black community and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library
or running new businesses. However, 61% rely entirely on self-funding for their start-up capital, highlighting persistent disparities in access to essential entrepreneurial resources. This imbalance can strain mental health and perpetuate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details
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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
influenced movement away from IT’s disparate teams being siloed, encouraging cross-functional teams to work together, as well as IT with other organizations across HBS. HBS IT has a strong partnership with HBS Operations that began during... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
enterprise market values as well as greater disparities between them suggests that an upturn in mergers and acquisitions can't be far behind. Unfortunately, if research is any guide, the operative question is whether more or less value... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
America, exploring their historical roots and socioeconomic impacts. The report discusses how these disparities affect education, labor markets, and government policies, and suggests approaches for businesses to address these issues. CEO... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
rising talent is taking hold in leading companies. What is the path forward for the would-be advanced leader? First, dream big. Some of my favorite stories in the book are about people who take on something that seems impossible—fixing nutrition View Details